Dr Zhenhui Yuan

Dr. Zhenhui Yuan is with the Connected Systems Group where he focuses on applying AI and advanced networking technologies to enable seamless robot-to-robot and robot-to-human collaboration. He received a BEng in Software Engineering from Wuhan University, China, in 2008, and a PhD in Electronic Engineering from Dublin City University, Ireland, in 2012. He was a postdoctoral researcher (2012-2014) funded by Ericsson and Enterprise Ireland, and a visiting scientist at the Network Research Lab at UCLA (2014). Between 2014 and 2015, he was the 3GPP Delegate and Senior Research Engineer on 5G at Huawei Technologies (Shanghai). From 2015 to 2019, he was the co-Founder and CTO of RobSense Technology (Hangzhou, China), a startup producing mobile robots for industry. RobSense has secured venture investment exceeding 15 million RMB (~£1.5m). He was a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University (UK) from 2020 to 2023 and is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of Warwick.

He currently serves as the Consulting Member (on Telerobotics in Healthcare) at the Institute for Applied & Translational Technologies in Surgery, University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire/NHS Trust. He is a Voting Member of the IEEE P1954 Working Group on UAV communications. He has led and participated research projects funded by British Academy, Horizon EU and NSFC China. He was the Leading Guest Editor for special issues at IEEE Network, IEEE IoT-Magazine, and IEEE IoT-Journal, and an Associate Editor for IEEE ACCESS, IEEE Transactions on Consumer Electronics, and the Journal of Pervasive Computing & Communications. He is the founding Chair of the VeSUS workshop ("6G-empowered Robotic Vehicles for Sustainable Development") which has been successfully held in IEEE VTC 2023/2024 and IEEE ICC 2025.

A full list of publications/projects/demos can be found at Dr.Yuan's research website:

http://www.zhenhuiyuan.net Link opens in a new window

Wireless Communications, Telepresence, Networked Robotics